Beekman

Last updated March 31, 2025

Beekman is a Dutch toponymic surname, literally translating as "creek man".^[1] Variant forms are Beeckman and Beekmans. The Estonian poet Vladimir Beekman's family originally carried the name Peekmann.^[2] People with the surname include:

People

Beekman family of New York

Prominent descendants of the Beekman family originally of Overijssel, Netherlands:^[3]

Wilhelmus Beekman (1623–1707), Treasurer of the Dutch West India Company, Governor of Delaware and Pennsylvania, 1653/58-1663
- Gerardus Beekman (1653–1723), colonel, surgeon, Governor of the province of New York
Henry Beekman (1687–1775), prominent colonial American politician and landowner

Other people with the surname

Aimée Beekman (born 1933), Estonian writer, wife of Vladimir
Allan Beekman (1913–2001), American reporter and author
Anton Albert Beekman (1854–1947), Dutch geographer
Augustus A. Beekman (1923–2008), New York City fire commissioner
Cornelius C. Beekman (1828–1915), American banker in Jacksonville, Oregon
Jaap Beekman [ nl ] (1919–2010), Dutch World War II resistance fighter, husband of Yolande
Josh Beekman (born 1983), American football player and coach
Marcel Beekman (born 1969), Dutch tenor
Vladimir Beekman (1929–2009), Estonian writer, poet and translator, husband of Aimée
Yolande Beekman (1911–1944), World War II heroine, wife of Jaap

Beekmans

Gerard Beekmans (born 1979), Dutch programmer
Paul Beekmans (born 1982), Dutch footballer

Given name

Beekman Du Barry (1828–1901), United States Army Brigadier General
Beekman V. Hoffman (1789–1834), United States Navy officer
Beekman Winthrop (1874–1940), American Governor of Puerto Rico 1909–13
Garry Beekman Trudeau (born 1948), American cartoonist
Henry Beekman Livingston (1748–1828), American poet

Places and buildings

All named after descendants of Willem Beekman:

Beekman, New York, a town in Dutchess County named after Hendrick Beekman (1652–1716), son of Willem
- Beekman Fire District
- Beekman Park
Beekman Corners, New York, community now part of Sharon, New York
Beekmantown, New York, a town in Clinton County, New York
Beekman Place (Manhattan), street that was the site of the Beekman family mansion, Mount Pleasant
The Beekman, previously known as Beekman Tower, a skyscraper designed by Frank Gehry, New York
Beekman (Panhellenic) Tower, skyscraper designed by John Mead Howels (constructed 1927–29), New York
Beekman Downtown Hospital or Lower Manhattan Hospital, New York
Beekman Peninsula of Baffin Island, named after James W. Beekman, of New York
Beekman Native Plant Arboretum, in Oregon, named after Cornelius C. Beekman

References

↑ Beekman at the Database of Surnames in The Netherlands.
↑ Vladimir Beekman genealogy at geni.com.
↑ William Benford Aitken, Distinguished Families in America, Descended from Wilhelmus Beekman and Jan Thomasse Van Dyke, Knickerbocker Press, 1912

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[1] Beekman at the Database of Surnames in The Netherlands.

[2] Vladimir Beekman genealogy at geni.com.

[3] William Benford Aitken, Distinguished Families in America, Descended from Wilhelmus Beekman and Jan Thomasse Van Dyke, Knickerbocker Press, 1912

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